Grammar Girl here. Listen up, everyone! Todays topic is phrasal verbs, as in to listen up. And now, guest-writer Bonnie Trenga writes, a listener, Paulino from Minneapolis, would like to know what phrasal verbs are and why they are called that. Phras

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By Parke Brewer Cologne 16 June 2006 The U.S. Soccer team will try to bounce back from its opening 3-0 (Group E) loss to the Czech Republic at the World Cup. But as VOA Sports Editor Parke Brewer reports from Germany, it will not be easy. ----------

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After you have greeted your guests, you will begin to go through the main body of your presentation. It's very useful to have some visual aids - some slides, pictures or graphs that help explain what you are saying. Sometimes they can also help to k

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An ant once leaned too far over the edge of a fountain and fell in-to the water.A dove was watching from a tree nearby.She saw that the ant could not swim so she plucked off a leaf and threw it down to him.He managed to scramble onto it and in

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One cold,frosty day in the middle of winter a colony of ants was busy drying out some grains of corn which had grown damp during the wet autumn weather.A grasshopper,half dead with cold and hunger,came up to one of the ants.Please give me a

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By Cynthia Kirk ENVIRONMENT REPORT -May 31, 2002: Coqui Frogs Invade Hawaii This is the VOA Special English ENVIRONMENT REPORT. Experts say the American state of Hawaii has been invaded by a small fro

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